Improvement in miter-boxes



PQSUYDAMQ Miter-Boxes.

10,147,375 Patenten Feb.24.874.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE.

PETER SUYDAM, OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN MlTER-BOXES.

Specification forming pait of Letters Patent No. 147S7, dated February 24, 1874 application filed l December 29, 1873.

VTo all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, APETER SUYDAM, of New Brunswick, in the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Miter-Box, of which the following is a specification The invention consists in the improvement of miter-machines, as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure l is a plan view of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken on the line m w of Fig. l. Fig.3 is a detail ot' the clips. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation of a modified arrangement of the saw-guides and tubes, and Fig. 5 is a cross-section of Fig. 4 on the line y y.

Similar letters ot' reference indicate corresponding parts.

A' is the bottom, and B the side, of cuttingbox, whereon the stuit to be cut is held. C and D are the saw-guide-holding tubes. rlhey are mounted on the swinging block E, which is under the bottom A ot' the box, and it is pivoted in the axis of the tube C, which is in the side piece B, to swing` horizontally either way from the transverse line z z along the circular bar F, and the flange G to be fastened to the latter at any point by the clamp-uut H and screw I, or to the former at the stops J l by a spring-catch, L, to be set in the first case for any angles required, and in the latter forspecial angles, as, for square miters, in stops K, and octagonal ones on stops J. The stops J K are made sothat the spring-clip will rise up from either side to fall with them. rIhe saw-guide tubes are slotted from the top to the bottom board A, to allow the saw to work down thereto. M represents the slotted wood bearings, which are applied to the saw, and iit in the tubes snugly to serve for bearings for the sides of the saw, and to settle down in the tubes as the saw works down in the stuii being sawed. The slots in these bearings are only as wide as the thickness of the saw, so that the saw is confined snugly at the sides, and prevented from being loose or slack; also, the sides of the bearings are prevented from being cut by the saw-teeth except in a small portion, as they otherwise would be throughout the whole length, so as to quickly ruin them if the saw was allowed to move down along the sides of stationary guides. The stop plates J K are attached to the barF by slotted holes O in the said bar for the fastening-bolts P, or in any equivalent way to allow of shitting said stops slightly to vary them for cutting the miters scant or full, as is sometimes required.

The tubes and the guides may be modified in respect of the. form of the bore of the one and the exterior of the other, as shown by Fig. 5, if preferred, which may, perhaps, be better in some respects.

When so made the tubes will probably be cast and the guides will be made of two pieces fastened together. The tubes may, also, in such a case, be cast in two parts and planed out smooth for the guides M, and then fastened together below the slot for the saw.

For back-saws, which are mostly used for sawing miters, the guides will be mortised near the top, as at Q, for the back to run in, and the tubes will be widened in the upper part of the slot for the saw, as at It, to allow the back to descend sufli'ciently for the blade to pass through the work, but to arrest it as soon as it passes through.

rIhe saw-guides M will be arrested when the saw has cut through the work, to prevent it from cutting the bottom of the box, by a pin, a, in the lower end of each tube G D.

For saws diii'ering in width, guide-bearin gs M of ditlerent lengths may be employed.

Saws without permanent backs, known as pony saws,7 may be used in the machine by 

